Michael

Michael comes from the Hebrew name Mikha'el, meaning who is like God, a rhetorical question implying that no one is equal to the divine. In the Hebrew Bible and Christian tradition, Michael is the name of an archangel who serves as a warrior and protector, which helped spread the name widely across Europe and the Near East throughout the medieval period. It became one of the most common masculine given names in the English-speaking world during the twentieth century. Closely related forms include the Irish Micheál, the French Michel, the Italian Michele, the Spanish Miguel, and the Russian Mikhail.